The making of Southeast Asia : international relations of a region / Amitav Acharya.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Acharya, Amitav, author.

Series:

Cornell studies in political economy

Standardized Title:

Quest for identity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Southeast Asia--Foreign relations.

Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asia--Politics and government--1945-.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xiv, 350 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Reprint edition.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2013]

Summary:

In this New Edition of a book first published as The Quest for Identity in 2000, Amitav Acharya updates developments in Southeast Asia through the first decade of the new century: the aftermath of the financial crisis of 1997, security affairs after September 2001, the long-term impact of the 2004 tsunami, and the substantial changes wrought by the rise of China as a regional and global actor. Acharya argues in this important book for the crucial importance of regionalism in a different part of the world. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Region, Regionalism and Regional Identity in the Making of Southeast Asia 1

Unity in Diversity

Interactions and Identity

Structure of the Book

2 Imagined Communities and Socially Constructed Regions Defining Regionness 21

Material and Ideational Perspectives

Whole and Parts

Past and Present

Inside and Outside

Permanence and Transience

Summary of the Argument

3 Imagining Southeast Asia 51

Introduction

The Southeast Asian States and State System in the Pre-Colonial Era

Commerce, Colonialism and the Regional Concept

After the War: (Re)inventing the Region

The Contribution of "Southeast Asian Studies"

Conclusion

4 Nationalism, Regionalism and the Cold War Order 105

The Nationalist Vision of Regionalism

Development, Legitimacy and Regional (Dis)order

Great-Power Rivalry and Regional Autonomy

5 The Evolution of Regional Organization 149

ASA and Maphilindo

The Establishment of ASEAN: Motivating Factors

Dimensions of ASEAN Regionalism

6 Southeast Asia Divided: Polarization and Reconciliation 180

Vietnam and ASEAN

ASEAN and the Cambodian Conflict

Towards Regional Reconciliation

East Asian Regionalization and Southeast Asian Regionalism

The "ASEAN Way"

7 Constructing "One Southeast Asia" 213

Towards "One Southeast Asia"

Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific Idea

8 Globalization and the Crisis of Regional Identity 240

The Perils of Globalization

Rainforests and Regional Identity

Identity and Community

Regional Identity and Civil Society

China, India and Southeast Asian Identity

An East Asian Community?

9 Whither Southeast Asia? 289.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Edition:

Revision of: Acharya, Amitav Singapore ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000 (xi, 188 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.)

ISBN:

9780801477362

0801477360

OCLC:

825050407

Publisher Number:

99953183142